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In honor of Founding Week 2025, we are highlighting ten of the most-read articles published on our website over the past decade. From alumni achievements to faculty engagement and distinguished guests, we are proud of the platform we have created to amplify voices within the AUP community. 

  • #MeToo and #BalanceTonPorc: Translating Feminism
    • Year: 2018 
    • On a snowy weekend in February, students, academics and interested feminists gathered at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) for a conference on the phenomenon of both #BalanceTonPorc and #MeToo. The event was convened by AUP’s Associate Professor and Director of AUP's Gender, Sexuality and Society program housed in the Psychology, Health and Gender Department, Lissa Lincoln, with faculty from the EHESS, the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and Centre de recherches historiques (CRH). 
  • Writer–Director Carolina Cavalli ’13 Has a Message for Aspiring Filmmakers
    • Year: 2023 
    • Carolina Cavalli ’13 is an Italian screenwriter, director and author whose first film, Amanda (2022), achieved acclaim at both the Venice and Toronto international film festivals and stars Benedetta Porcaroli in the title role. We caught up with Carolina to discuss filmmaking, her time in Paris, and why confidence is key when first starting out in cinema. 
  • AUP Professors Appointed Co-Chairholders for a UNESCO Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
    • Year: 2024 
    • At the heart of UNESCO’s latest collaboration with The American University of Paris (AUP), Professors Claudia Roda and Susan Perry are working to create an environment that addresses Artificial Intelligence (AI) developments within a governance structure and regulatory system founded on the International Human Rights Framework. AUP Professors Perry and Roda have been newly appointed as the UNESCO Co-Chairholders for a UNESCO Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights. 
  • Cédric Villani on the Future of Artificial Intelligence
    • Year: 2022 
    • On Thursday, March 17, 2022, the Office of AUP’s President Celeste M. Schenck hosted the seventh event in its Presidential Lecture Series: a presentation and Q&A by renowned mathematician, researcher and French politician Cédric Villani. Villani presented on the topic of “AI and Algorithmics: A Sword for Progress or for Self-Destruction?” 
  • MAGC Students’ Documentary Short Enjoys Film Festival Success  
    • Year: 2023 
    • AUP’s master’s programs are hands on, allowing students to put theory into practice through workshops with industry experts and other experiential opportunities. For students in the MA in Global Communications (MAGC), this often means getting to grips with media production – including filmmaking. In 2021, Alfonso Sjogreen G’22 and Mayar Alanis G’23 took a hands-on module called Urban Tales for Sustainable Society: Art of the Documentary. The film Alfonso and Mayar produced – a seven-minute documentary called I Feel Perfect about Stoian, a man living on the streets of Paris – has since found success at a number of international film festivals. 
  • Sonya Stephens, AUP’s 13th President
    • Year: 2022 
    • The American University of Paris has found its 13th President. Following a rigorous international search, Professor Sonya Stephens was appointed by the Board of Trustees and assumed the presidency as of September 1, 2022, following the retirement of outgoing President Celeste M. Schenck at the end of AUP’s 60th anniversary year. 
  • From a Francophone Perspective: Gender and Race in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games
    • Year: 2024 
    • Article written by AUP Assistant Professor Caroline Laurent, French Studies and Modern Languages Department 
    • Since 2016, through its Olympics Art Visions programme, the Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage has commissioned a sculpture to represent the Olympic Games. The 2024 Olympic Legacy sculpture, “Salon,” by American artist Alison Saar, shows a Black woman sitting while holding an olive branch and a gold flame. “Salon,” located in the Charles Aznavour garden near the Champs-Elysées, evokes two important issues of this year’s Olympic Games in France: gender and race.
  • Professor Peter Hägel on Billionaires in World Politics
    • Year: 2021 
    • Peter Hägel is an assistant professor at AUP and the program coordinator for the philosophy, politics and economics major. We caught up to discuss his recent book publication, Billionaires in World Politics (Oxford University Press, 2020). 
  • Black History Month at AUP: Ta-Nehisi Coates
    • Year: 2016 
    • A few minutes into Ta-Nehisi Coates’ talk on February 16, and it’s clear that those expecting a brief book chat, with a Q&A if there’s time, will have to quickly adjust. “I’ll start by allowing you guys to ask questions but do not be surprised if I throw the questions back at you…I don’t much like the mode of public intellectual, of thinker, even of writer, as it’s commonly deployed. The notion holds that writers, intellectuals, thinkers, have achieved a sort of wisdom, that they are somehow touched by God and thus can prophesy from on high and essay and talk about a diversity of subjects with some amount of wisdom and intelligence. As a reader, before I became a writer as a professional, I found that generally not to be true.” 
  • A Pop-Culture Force for Postcolonial Theory
    • Year: 2019 
    • In the second of a three-part series, undergraduate student Isabel Guigui reflects on blogger and activist Grace Ly’s visit to the Postcolonial Literatures and Theory class. The first article in the series is available here. 
    • On Friday, February 15, 2019, Grace Ly, a Chinese Cambodian blogger, novelist and activist, was invited to speak to students in the Postcolonial Literatures and Theory class. Growing up in New York, I was acutely aware of the systematic maltreatment of nonwhites, so my ears perked up when Ly said: “The French think that America has a race problem, but in fact...” It was refreshing to listen to a proud French citizen, who grew up in the country, unflinchingly highlight issues surrounding race in France, rather than sweep them under the carpet with a platitude such as “in France we do not see color.”